Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb reverberate

6 senses of reverberate

Sense 1
resound, echo, ring, reverberate -- (ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter")
       => sound, go -- (make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'")

Sense 2
reverberate -- (have a long or continuing effect; "The discussions with my teacher reverberated throughout my adult life")
       => prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure -- (continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures")

Sense 3
reverberate -- (be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves; "the waves reverberate as far away as the end of the building")
       => reflect, reverberate -- (to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium")

Sense 4
reflect, reverberate -- (to throw or bend back (from a surface); "Sound is reflected well in this auditorium")

Sense 5
bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet -- (spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide")
       => jump, leap, bound, spring -- (move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?")

Sense 6
reverberate -- (treat, process, heat, melt, or refine in a reverberatory furnace; "reverberate ore")
       => process, treat -- (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill")

Antonyms of adj reverberating

1 sense of reverberating

Sense 1
resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative -- (characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder")

INDIRECT (VIA reverberant) -> unreverberant, nonresonant -- (not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate)

Similarity of adj reverberating

1 sense of reverberating

Sense 1
resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative -- (characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder")
       => reverberant (vs. unreverberant) -- (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon")

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